Building date: 1840
Original use:
Corner structures: Red sandstone
Mortar application and content: Vertical, thin rounded
Types and uses of stones: Small, various colors. Decoration by stone color.
Types and choice of windows: Lintels red stone solid
Structures with similar masonry details: Gai-16 School 11
Masons who worked on building: Elijah Maxon, a farmer and stone mason.
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°13'47.04"N 78°06'54.81"W. Current owner of record, Applegate as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Murray and Orleans County Maps
Decoration with colored stones. Roudabush Survey page 40
Sylvester Brown appears in the road records of Murray 1838. He was a farmer and grain thresher and lived near the end of the Transit Road in Murray. He had a stone house, faced with pebbles from the lake shore. Landmarks of Orleans Co. N. Y. p. 392.
Sylvester Brown was the great great uncle of Walter Brown who lived decades after in the Mur-18 Young-Brown House cobblestone house at the southwest corner of West Kendall and East Transit Church Rds., Town of Murray. The two cobblestone homes were about 4 miles apart in a direct line. Cobblestone historian Delia Robinson researched the family genealogy in the the book "Ancestors of Florence Julia Brown and Some of Their Descendants" by Walter L. and M. T. Brown to determine their family relationship.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 75, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Applegate House 12th Annual 06/10/1972
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Brown - Applegate House
- Pages 134 - 135
¹ 1860 Niagara Orleans Counties Mur-6 Excerpt Map courtesy Library of Congress.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
